乾打雷,不下雨

all thunder but no rain (idiom) / a lot of noise but no action

Characters and words in 乾打雷,不下雨

old variant of 乾[qian2]
surname Qian
one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing heaven / male principle / ☰ / ancient Chinese compass point: 315° (northwest)
surname Gan

= + : Guy Fawkes is drying his clothes in front of the anthill. He hangs them on a large construction made from a cross and a flute. Waiting for his clothes to dry, he heats some dried fruits.
dry / clean / in vain / dried food / foster / adoptive / to ignore

= + : Guy Fawkes is drying his clothes in front of the anthill. He hangs them on a large construction made from a cross and a flute. Waiting for his clothes to dry, he heats some dried fruits.
variant of 乾[qian2]
dry / dried food / empty; hollow / taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster / futile; in vain / (dialect) rude; blunt / (dialect) to cold-shoulder
dozen (loanword)
to beat / to strike / to hit / to break / to type / to mix up / to build / to fight / to fetch / to make / to tie up / to issue / to shoot / to calculate / to play (a game) / since / from

= + : Don Quixote (d) got lost in the ashram (a3) and is afraid of being beaten (打). He equips himself with a claw (扌) for the left hand and a nail (丁) for the right hand, ready to beat (打) anyone approaching him.
to rumble with thunder / clap of thunder
surname Lei

= + : Sir Lancelot (l) has to clear a mine (雷) field (田) in the Eiffel Tower's kitchen (ei2) in the rain (雨). It is raining so hard, when Lancelot hears the thunder (雷) he doesn't know if it's the weather or a mine he triggered.
thunder / mine (weapon) / (Internet slang) terrifying / terrific

= + : Sir Lancelot (l) has to clear a mine (雷) field (田) in the Eiffel Tower's kitchen (ei2) in the rain (雨). It is raining so hard, when Lancelot hears the thunder (雷) he doesn't know if it's the weather or a mine he triggered.
thunder / (bound form) (military) mine, as in 地雷[di4 lei2] land mine / (coll.) to shock; to stun; to astound / (Tw) (coll.) spoiler / (Tw) (coll.) to reveal plot details to (sb)
(negative prefix) / not / no

= + : Bruno Bear (bu) is setting up a wind wheel (丆) with a voodoo staff (卜) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). He also puts a "forbidden" sign (mnemonic symbol for 不) on it, to make clear that it may not (不) be stopped.
no; not so / (bound form) not; un-
to be not less than (a certain quantity, amount etc)
down / downwards / below / lower / later / next (week etc) / second (of two parts) / to decline / to go down / to arrive at (a decision, conclusion etc) / measure word to show the frequency of an action

= + : Mnemonic symbol: from the up/down logic, and a little bit the shape of the character, a ladder.

Xi Shi (xi) is on a retreat in the ashram. Using a voodoo staff (卜), she divined that next (下) week she'll have to play the flute (一) sixteen hours per day. Because she hates playing the flute, she climbs over the ashram's bathroom (a4) wall using a ladder (下) to escape.
rain / CL:陣|阵[zhen4],場|场[chang2]

= + + : It is raining inside of the space station, and because of zero gravity, it is raining in every direction. Yu the Great can't just hide under a ladder covered with petal leaves, she also has to tug herself in a few maps.
(literary) to rain / (of rain, snow etc) to fall / to precipitate / to wet

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